It’s also common to confuse periwinkle with annual vinca flower (Catharanthus roseus), commonly known as Madagascar periwinkle. Impatiens flowers (botanic name Impatiens) grow as an annual.

The Vinca with periwinkle blue flowers in April and May and is the ... Vinca minor, our perennial groundcover, is also known as common periwinkle, lesser periwinkle, and running myrtle.

"Periwinkle is a trailing ground cover with shiny, dark leaves. Later in the spring, it'll produce distinct, purple pinwheel-like flowers," one of the volunteers described. Common periwinkle is a ...

Linguam Latinam non loquor - I don't speak Latin. Some botanical names don't trip lightly off my tongue. I'll sound out the words phonetically, but it's easy to stumble over pronunciations.

Fun fact: This plant is also known by the name vinca or annual vinca. It's not the same as the creeping perennial groundcover known as vinca or common periwinkle (Vinca minor), but they are in the ...